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CTMQ > Closed/Gone/Former

Schoolhouse No. 3

August 12, 2019 by Steve Leave a Comment

A, B, C! School - house 3! R-I-P! Avon (Google Maps location) February 2019 Connecticut museum visit #450. This was closed for decades but is reopening in July 2025 as an Avon History Museum. This museum will remain RIP for the foreseeable future. In the world of historical museums, progress can be quite slow. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Avon, avon historical society, Closed/Gone/Former, School Houses, Tiny Museums

Nordic Moon Meadery (Closed)

August 8, 2019 by Steve 2 Comments

Pretty Lo Ki Nordic Moon Meadery, Ellington April 2019 What you're reading right now is a placeholder of sorts. As I write this in August 2019, Nordic Moon's tasting room is not yet open. I don't know when it will be open. It might be open when you're reading this... or maybe it never opened. If and when it does … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food & Drink, Wineries Tagged With: Closed/Gone/Former, Ellington, meaderies

Connecticut Valley Distillery (Closed)

August 7, 2019 by Steve Leave a Comment

Smuggler's Done Connecticut Valley Distillery (Closed), Ellington Closed 2018 You have found yourself on (yet another) page on CTMQ that exists for no other reason than to satisfy my list-completion OCD. I not only never visited the Connecticut Valley Distillery, I never drank any of its signature Smuggler’s Rum. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Distilleries, Food & Drink Tagged With: Closed/Gone/Former, Ellington

The Brewery at Maple View Farm (Closed)

July 12, 2019 by Steve 2 Comments

Reassessing Everything The Brewery at Maple View Farm May 2019 The brewery closed at the end of November 2024. I’ve been thinking about the old adage, “If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.” While I’ve been clear in my 13 years of writing everything on this website that I sometimes … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Breweries, Food & Drink, New Post Tagged With: Closed/Gone/Former, Granby, Hoang

Moses Cle(a)veland of Canterbury

June 26, 2019 by Steve 2 Comments

Cleaved Moses Cleaveland's Birth and Grave Sites Canterbury Cleveland. The “Mistake by the Lake.” Always the butt of jokes. So much so that Connecticut makes fun of it. That’s when you know you have an identity problem. It goes beyond the Cuyahoga River being on fire and the perennial ineptitude of the Browns and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, New Post, Religion, Cemeteries, Monuments, Statuary, Greens, & Outdoor Sculpture & Art Tagged With: Canterbury, Cemeteries, Closed/Gone/Former, Dubious Claims, ohio

World’s Largest Visible Model of the Solar System (Gone)

June 25, 2019 by Steve Leave a Comment

Sunsetting World's Largest Visible Model of the Solar System (RIP) Talcott Mountain Science Center, Avon Generally, I’m not too upset about the various things around the state that close. I get to most before their demise and for those that I don’t, well, I'll try to cobble together a page about something if it … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, New Post, Superlatives Tagged With: Astronomy, Avon, Calvin, Closed/Gone/Former, Largests Longests Mosts Smallests and Tallests

Stranger Tides Brewing (Closed)

June 25, 2019 by Steve Leave a Comment

Strange Brew Stranger Tides Brewing, Colchester April 2019 I'm calling this brewery permanently closed. Closed pre-pandemic for health issues, license expired summer of 2021. I just happened to come across this picture in early 2023 which prompted me to see if there was any change in brewery status. I think it's a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Breweries, Food & Drink, New Post Tagged With: Closed/Gone/Former, Colchester, stranger tides brewing

The Hooker Test Kitchen (Closed)

May 28, 2019 by Steve Leave a Comment

Dead Hooker in the (Tree) Trunk The Hooker Test Kitchen/The Brew Pub at Mohegan Sun, Montville Never Visited Since no one will ever read this page - and rightly so - I'm going to link something uncouth. A scene from "Dirty Work," a comedy with the incomparable Norm MacDonald. (And Chris Farley and Artie Lange as … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Breweries, Food & Drink Tagged With: casinos, Closed/Gone/Former, Hooker Brewing, Montville

Stony Creek Brewery at Foxwoods (Closed)

May 28, 2019 by Steve 3 Comments

Fake Stone by a Fake Creek Stony Creek Brewery at Foxwoods, Ledyard May 2019 This brewery location closed in March 2021. I am not a gambler. I don't even know how to play poker and while blackjack can be fun, it's simply not fun losing money. I've never put a dime into a slot machine. Ever. Foxwoods is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Breweries, Food & Drink, New Post Tagged With: casinos, Closed/Gone/Former, foxwoods, Ledyard, Stony Creek Brewing

Energize CT Center (Closed)

May 8, 2019 by Steve Leave a Comment

Workin' It North Haven (Google Maps location) April 2019 This place closed in 2020. Not every museum in Connecticut presents itself upfront as a museum. And we all know that I lump a lot of places under the museum umbrella that totally aren't what one typically refers to as a museum. But the Energize … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Calvin, Closed/Gone/Former, Free Museums, North Haven, Not Really a Museum Museum

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